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Second Officer-Involved Shooting Near Nightclub

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The area near El Chapparal is plagued with more fighting and another officer-related shooting, accoring to a report by MyFoxHouston.com.

For the second time in as many months, an off-duty officer was involved in a shooting at a northwest Houston nightclub.

Police say a fight involving several men broke out after 2 a.m. Monday at a Shell fuel station near Northwest Mall and off-duty officers working as security guards at El Chaparral went to stop the fighting.

During the fight, police say one of the men involved entered his vehicle and took out a knife before stabbing another man. Despite the warnings by one of the officers, the man with the knife continued to stab the other man.

After one of the officers shot toward the stabbing suspect several times, the suspect was wounded and tried to drive away but died inside his vehicle.